 | Drummond (58)
12/01/2005 |  Yes, I'm aware that more Republicans voted for the civil rights act than Democrats, however, the southern Democrats who opposed it have mostly become Republicans thanks in large part to an active Republican campaign beginning with Nixon's 1968 "southern strategy." However, the majority of people in the civil rights movement, who made the real change at the grassroots level in the face of dogs, tear gas, firehoses, arson, death threats, and murder - 99 percent of them were liberals and radicals. When Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act bill he said, "We (the Democrats) have lost the south for a hundred years." It's proven true. Northern Republicans jumped on the bandwagon because there was no rational basis to oppose it. The problem here is that conservatives make "liberal" synonimous with "Democrat." But in the 19th century, the Democrats were the conservative party, and remained so in the south long after the reallignment, where blacks and liberals began leaving the Republican Party en masse during the 1930s.
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 | numbah16tdhaha (152)
12/01/2005 | As has already been brought up, I don't think the track record lets whatever this liberal/progressive concept is claim any credit here.
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 | GenghisTheHun (171)
12/01/2005 | The greatest "Progressive" of the early Twentieth Century, Woodrow Wilson, was a rabid racist. He fired all the Black appointees placed there previously by the McKinley, T. Roosevelt and Taft administrations. He exiled Black troops in WWI to menial duties. Yeah, really progressive!
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 | EschewObfuscation (63)
12/01/2005 | This has a definite "liberal/progressive" tone to it but republicans, as a party (prior to President Kennedy's administration) advanced this program while democrats generally opposed it. Brown v. Topeka took place while Ike was president, not that I might remember.
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